Welcome to Sunday Assembly Edinburgh!

We are Edinburgh’s secular congregation, meeting regularly to celebrate life, build community and help everyone live life as fully as possible. Our motto is Live Better, Help Often, Wonder More. We are part of the worldwide Sunday Assembly community, an international movement of wonder and good. Founded in 2013 in London, there are now over 50 Sunday Assemblies in eight countries around the world. For more details see the FAQ.

We generally meet on the first Sunday of each month at Lifecare Edinburgh, 2 Cheyne Street, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH4 1JB at 11.30am for around an hour to sing pop songs with the house band, hear inspiring talks and poems, reflect on life, meet others and eat cake. It’s always free to come, we are family (and dog) friendly and we welcome all. We also have spin-off groups like our book club, writers’ group, Live Better peer support groups, and we support local charities. And there’s no religion – guaranteed.

Live Better group starts Tuesday 23 October 2018

The next Sunday Assembly Live Better group is starting on Tuesday 23 October 2018 here Edinburgh. The group is a peer support and coaching environment to help us all to live life as fully as possible. This group will meet five times – Tuesdays 23 Oct, 6 Nov, 27 Nov, 4 Dec and 11 Dec. Members are expected to attend all (or at least most) sessions during this time.

Each participant will bring along a ‘project’ – a life challenge, a new year resolution, something you are grappling with in your life, anything you like. The group, led by an experienced facilitator, will use a mixture of group conversations, coaching, action learning, reflective, circle and affirmative practices in support of everyone building progress with their projects.

Sunday Assembly 7 October 2018 – Hume-anism?

October’s Sunday Assembly is focusing on Edinburgh’s place in the development of humanistic and non-religious ideas. Our speaker is John Gordon, lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. John is an acclaimed expert in the philosophy of David Hume, a leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century and still regarded as the first modern humanist.

John is a very entertaining speaker, and will connect us with Hume, his world in the mid 1700s and his contributions both to philosophy and to the Edinburgh we all live in in enjoy today – and why David Hume himself would have been an enthusiastic Sunday Assembler!